The Hawks have proved to be for real this year and have defeated the Pistons in the two previous meetings. In the last contest no other than Flip Murray torched his former team, scoring 23 points off the bench in 28 minutes.

Josh Smith didn't play in the second half Friday after he got into a heated exchange with Woodson at halftime that could be heard in the hallway outside the locker room. Smith, who had 13 points in the first two quarters, spent the second half sitting in the middle of the bench with a towel draped over his back. "I don't want to talk about that right now," Smith said when asked about the benching. Woodson wouldn't say whether the team's third-leading scorer would play Saturday